Word: arezzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow fight through northern Italy began to speed up again. Both the Fifth and Eighth Armies made their most rapid advances in weeks, passed Arezzo in the center, on the west drew close to the German Arno River line, outpost of the Gothic mountain line where the Germans hope to stand and hold...
...center the Eighth Army broke a three-week deadlock by bursting through four German divisions to capture the high way hub of Arezzo, controlling German lateral communications, then tooled on across the Arno...
Little Civitella, nine miles off the main highway to Arezzo, has never been described by that careful German traveler, Karl Baedeker. But Italians will remember...
...dash. Certainly the Yugoslav attack on northern Albania, capturing 100 men in about the time that the Nazis were taking 100,000 in Thrace and Yugoslavia was not the answer. At noon on the sixth day, German motorcycle patrols met the van guard of a pompous Italian parade (the Arezzo and Florence Divisions of regulars, a regiment of Bersaglieri, a legion of Blackshirts) which had succeeded in push ing about six miles out of Albania against little resistance except an unseasonal snow storm...
...born as to be nameless, Aretino took his name from his town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi...